You bring up good points. I think the current push to completely undermine and overhaul the definition of marriage, gender, sex, etc is really just another ploy from the devil. He is the destroyer and the author of confusion. He is attempting to subvert and pervert what has been made and declared good by the Creator. I think he uses the mainstream media to accomplish a lot of this. To me, they are worse than our corrupt governments. They are the worst of all, because if they chose to tell the truth and present all the facts and use their influence for good, people would be influenced in a different way. Instead, the media has an agenda, and they manipulate people's emotions by feeding them specific narratives. They're basically corralling them toward an end goal.
I can't say I don't care or am not bothered by the homosexual/transexual lifestyles. To say that I am would mean I'm saying I'm okay with sinning. I'm not okay with it, and the sin I do, myself, is the one I hate the most. If someone is born with an innate desire for the opposite sex, or born with the desire to live as the opposite gender, that is out of their control. You can't help the way you feel. It's when those desires are acted upon that it becomes sin. I have innate sinful propensities. When I act upon them, I have sinned. I have homosexual friends. I treat them with love and respect, just as I try to do with everyone. I disagree with their lifestyle, but Jesus has not commanded me to try and change that. He's commanded me to love them (John 13:34-35), which is the greatest command (Galatians 5:14), and to tell them how to be saved (Mark 16:15). It's my job to love them and influence them to Christ. They need to be saved, just as Jesus saved me. So, I think you are absolutely right that we/I need to be very careful how we speak to people—to everyone. (Colossians 4:6) This doesn't mean we shouldn't speak the Truth, even if it offends. (Ephesians 4:15) People need to know that there is an eternal consequence for their sin. It's hell, and it's real, but there is a cure (Jesus). (John 3:16-18)
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